One of the reasons Aids was such a low priority at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) was possibly that it had to do with sex, and a lot of political leaders did not understand sex, said UNAids ambassador Mechai Viravaidya.
The trustees of Jurgen Harksen’s insolvent estate have set the wheels in motion to reclaim a sum of DM99 000 which they believe the German donated to the Democratic Alliance.
Embattled Cape Town mayor Gerald Morkel was grilled to a turn as he struggled to explain to the Desai Commission whether he would have accepted a donation from fraud suspect Jurgen Harksen.
At midnight on Sunday, convicted cleric Allan Boesak will be a free man again.
Global food supply will be at risk if the world does not change the way it uses water, according to a report by two international research bodies released on Wednesday.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair has urged rich nations to open up their markets to the developing world — especially for agricultural products.
A former associate of German fraud suspect Jurgen Harksen has told the Desai commission that he wrote out a half-a-million rand cheque as a donation for the Democratic Alliance on Harksen’s instructions.
Alleged German fraudster Jurgen Harksen has claimed that Gerald Morkel’s lawyer phoned him on the eve of his latest round of testimony to the Desai Commission, urging him to stick to a particular version of events.
All John Kilgore’s good behaviour since his Symbionese
Liberation Army (SLA) days could not absolve him of his debt to society, a son of SLA victim Myrna Opsahl said on Thursday.
Fraud suspect Jurgen Harksen could find himself back behind bars at the weekend when the protective custody ordered by the Desai Commission draws to an end.